Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (1.3)
Platform: NetBackup Flex Scale OS
  1. Product overview
    1.  
      About Veritas NetBackup™ Flex Scale
  2. Viewing information about the NetBackup Flex Scale cluster environment
    1.  
      About the NetBackup Flex Scale management console
    2.  
      About the Dashboard view
    3.  
      Accessing the NetBackup web user interface on the appliance
    4.  
      Working with NetBackup Flex Scale APIs
  3. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure management
    1. User management
      1.  
        Considerations for managing NetBackup Flex Scale users
      2.  
        Adding users
      3.  
        Removing users
    2.  
      Directory services and certificate management
    3.  
      Region settings management
    4.  
      About NetBackup Flex Scale storage
    5. Node and disk management
      1.  
        NetBackup Flex Scale network cabling
      2. Adding a node to the cluster using the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface
        1.  
          Considerations for adding a node when disaster recovery is configured
      3.  
        Adding a node using the REST APIs
      4.  
        Replacing a node in a cluster
      5.  
        Starting and stopping nodes
      6.  
        Replacing a disk
      7.  
        Viewing disk details
      8.  
        Viewing node details
    6. License management
      1.  
        Adding or removing storage licenses
      2.  
        Adding NetBackup licenses
  4. NetBackup Flex Scale network management
    1.  
      About network management
    2.  
      Modifying DNS settings
    3.  
      About bonding Ethernet interfaces
    4. Bonding operations
      1.  
        Creating a bond
      2.  
        Modifying a bond
      3.  
        Removing a bond
    5. Data network configurations
      1. Network configuration on plain device (eth5)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
        2.  
          Modifying a data network
        3.  
          Deleting a data network
      2.  
        Network configuration on VLAN (eth5)
      3. Network configuration on bonded interfaces (bond0 on eth5 and eth7)
        1.  
          Adding a data network
      4.  
        VLAN on bond of eth5 and eth7 (bond0)
      5.  
        Support for multiple VLAN when disaster recovery is configured
  5. NetBackup Flex Scale infrastructure monitoring
    1. About alert management
      1.  
        Viewing information about alerts
      2.  
        Managing alerts
    2. About event notification
      1.  
        Purging events
    3. About AutoSupport and Call Home
      1.  
        Setting up email alerts
      2.  
        Setting up SNMP alerts
      3.  
        Configuring Call Home settings
    4.  
      Monitoring hardware components
  6. Resiliency in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      Erasure coding in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      High availability of the NetBackup master service
    3.  
      NetBackup catalog protection
    4.  
      NetBackup master service catalog protection using checkpoints
  7. Site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    1.  
      About site-based disaster recovery in NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      Establishing trust and setting up authentication
    3.  
      Configuring disaster recovery
    4.  
      Managing disaster recovery
    5.  
      Clearing the host cache
    6.  
      NetBackup optimized duplication using Storage Lifecycle Policies
  8. NetBackup Flex Scale security
    1.  
      STIG overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
    2.  
      STIG-compliant password policy rules
    3.  
      Enabling STIG for NetBackup Flex Scale
    4.  
      Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale STIG status
    5.  
      FIPS overview for NetBackup Flex Scale
    6.  
      Viewing the NetBackup Flex Scale FIPS status
  9. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Services management
    2. Collecting logs for cluster nodes
      1.  
        Uploading logs to Veritas Support
      2.  
        Downloading logs
    3. Troubleshooting NetBackup Flex Scale issues
      1.  
        If cluster configuration fails (for example because an IP address that was already in use is specified) and you try to reconfigure the cluster, the UI displays an error but the configuration process continues to run
    4.  
      Validation error while adding VMware credentials to NetBackup
    5.  
      NetBackup Web UI incorrectly displays some NetBackup Flex Scale processes as failed
  10. Appendix A. Configuring NetBackup optimized duplication
    1. Configuring a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      1.  
        Creating a Storage Lifecycle Policy for optimized duplication
      2.  
        Configuring a policy to use an SLP
      3.  
        Updating the policy to reverse the replication direction
  11. Appendix B. Disaster recovery terminologies
    1.  
      VVR technology in disaster recovery
    2.  
      About response fields in the GET disaster recovery API

About NetBackup Flex Scale storage

NetBackup Flex Scale supports the following types of storage for each node:

Device type

Number of devices per node

Used for

SATA SSD

2

Operating system and logs

SATA SSD

1

Certificates

NVMe SSD

2

NetBackup master server catalog, which contains the internal databases that include information about NetBackup backups and configuration, Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) catalog, and Data Change Object (DCO) for erasure-coded volumes

14-TB HDDs

12

Deduplicated backup data, Media file system, Master log file system, and scratch space for the MSDP catalog

File system layout

The following table shows the file systems and their layout:

File system

Layout

Device type

NetBackup master catalog

Striped-mirror or mirrored

SSD

MSDP catalog

Striped-mirror or mirrored

SSD

MSDP data

Erasure-coded

HDD

Scratch space

Erasure-coded

HDD

Media

Erasure-coded

HDD

Master log

Erasure-coded

HDD

The scratch file system grows each time you add a node. The NetBackup master server and the MSDP catalog file systems grow to double the size when you add the sixth node to the cluster. The NetBackup master server and the MSDP catalog file systems grow when you add the 6th, 9th, 12th or the 15th node to the cluster.

A new MSDP data file system is created for each new node that is added to the cluster. The number of MSDP data file systems is equal to the number of nodes in the cluster.

Viewing storage utilization

You can view the total usable capacity and used storage on the NetBackup Flex Scale dashboard. The dashboard is displayed when you sign in to the NetBackup Flex Scale web interface using the https://ManagementServerIPorFQDN:14161 URL where ManagementServerIPorFQDN is the public IP address that you specified for the NetBackup Flex Scale management server and API gateway during the cluster configuration; or when you click Dashboard in the left navigation pane of the UI. From the Dashboard you can navigate to more detailed information. For example, under Storage, click View details to view the used storage, storage pool the disk is allocated to, and the disk size for each of the disks.

You can also use the following REST APIs to view the storage details:

  • GET /api/appliance/v1.0/storage/filesystems
  • GET /api/appliance/v1.0/storage/filesystems/{fsName}
  • GET /api/appliance/v1.0/storage/clusters/{clusterId}/storage-utilised
Viewing alerts

If the storage usage exceeds 90% of the total available storage, the following alert is generated:

Netbackup file system [fs name] usage is above 90%

To clear or respond to the alert, you can free the used space or add more nodes to increase the storage.

To view alerts, do one of the following:

  • Click Dashboard in the left pane of the NetBackup Flex Scale UI. In the Alerts area, click View details to see a complete list of alerts.

  • At the top of any screen, click the Bell icon.

  • Click Settings > Alerts and notifications. On the Alerts and notifications page, use the filters to locate specific types of alerts.